If you hadn't already heard the good news,
WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!!
And we are thrilled!
Liam will be a great big brother!
Jeb will be a fabulous father of 2!
And me, I couldn't be happier!
Baby #2 is due the first week of July.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Celebrating Thanks
We are coming up on my favorite holiday of the year. Thanksgiving. A celebration of being Thankful. I think too often this holiday has become a tradition of turkey, cranberry, mashed potatoes, eat-to0-much family dinners. BUT, I think it is significant to celebrate being thankful. I think it is very Christian to celebrate thankfulness. It may be my favorite holiday because of my fond memories every year, eating the best food and seeing all my Allaway cousins and after dinner spending all night playing hide and seek in Grandpa's haymow. But as I have gotten older, the idea of celebrating thanks has truly grown on me. And I enjoy it for its simplicity...it is so much less hectic than the holiday that follows it and it is definitely something that I want to celebrate more than the holiday that precedes it. So as the day draws near, I am reminded to celebrate being thankful for what I have been given.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Table for Two
I just wanted to say that God has really been pouring blessings over us. I remembered after the last post about this past Friday night. Some friends offered to watch Liam so that we could go out just Jeb and I. So that is blessing number 1. I can't remember the last time we went out without Liam. We do get babysitters from time to time, but I don't know when the last time was. So then we decided we would go out to PF Chang's for dinner. Little did we know that they now are accepting reservations. It was a Friday night at peak dinner time. The restaurant was full. There were tons of people waiting. So we joined the line of people to go into the restaurant. First couple walks to hostess. "Table for two". They reply, "We're looking at about 1 hour and 45 minute wait." Second couple walks to hostess. Same reply. We're next and walk to hostess even though we have heard the previous two replies...and she says, "1 hour and 45 minutes....oh wait...we have a table". And we are seated immediately by the windows with a view. We were baffled...how could the tables turn so quickly UNLESS God wanted us to have a very special date! I am thankful for this blessing also. I give God the credit and not coincidence or chance of circumstance. He knew it was special for us so He opened up that table right away.
The other way that God has blessed us is through people. We have been a single car family for quite a while now. We haven't really minded all too much because there is a bus stop literally right outside our front door, so we have traded on and off taking the bus and having the bus stop so nearby has been a blessing to us. Liam loves to ride the bus too, so I am glad that he has had that experience. But there are those certain times. Like the times that it is cold outside and raining and you and your 2 year old son caught a bus that was late and so you missed your connecting bus and have to wait for twenty more minutes in the cold, wind, and rain. Well, someone from our church just up and gave us a truck. I know...generous. We are blessed. We are humbled. We are thankful. This is a huge way God has been blessing us through Him and His people here at Bellevue.
And I don't think that is the only way we have been blessed. I feel almost embarassed to write it down here but our neighbors have had bedbugs. I only know because I work in the office now. This has had me weirded out for quite a while and I am just grossed out by it. They have been fighting them for almost a year. It spread to their neighbor who is also across the hall from us so they decided to check and treat our apartment out of precaution. We were in the clear and treated. It was quite an ordeal to get treated...it was almost as if we moved out of our apartment and everything was taken out of closets and piled in our living room for a day and then we moved back into our apartment the next day. I was pretty hacked off about the whole ordeal but at the same time I would do anything to keep bed bugs away. So I am thankful because God has kept us free and clear. I have felt so humiliated and embarassed by this, but NOT getting bedbugs has been a huge blessing. I am grateful that God has blessed us. And maybe for our sakes, and for our poor neighbors who have continued to be fighting these bedbugs, you can pray that they too will be blessed with NO more bedbugs! I couldn't imagine having these recurrences for almost a year now.
I know God does so much more than these petty things I am listing here, I just wanted to write these down to say that I am thankful. And if anything, to remind myself.
The other way that God has blessed us is through people. We have been a single car family for quite a while now. We haven't really minded all too much because there is a bus stop literally right outside our front door, so we have traded on and off taking the bus and having the bus stop so nearby has been a blessing to us. Liam loves to ride the bus too, so I am glad that he has had that experience. But there are those certain times. Like the times that it is cold outside and raining and you and your 2 year old son caught a bus that was late and so you missed your connecting bus and have to wait for twenty more minutes in the cold, wind, and rain. Well, someone from our church just up and gave us a truck. I know...generous. We are blessed. We are humbled. We are thankful. This is a huge way God has been blessing us through Him and His people here at Bellevue.
And I don't think that is the only way we have been blessed. I feel almost embarassed to write it down here but our neighbors have had bedbugs. I only know because I work in the office now. This has had me weirded out for quite a while and I am just grossed out by it. They have been fighting them for almost a year. It spread to their neighbor who is also across the hall from us so they decided to check and treat our apartment out of precaution. We were in the clear and treated. It was quite an ordeal to get treated...it was almost as if we moved out of our apartment and everything was taken out of closets and piled in our living room for a day and then we moved back into our apartment the next day. I was pretty hacked off about the whole ordeal but at the same time I would do anything to keep bed bugs away. So I am thankful because God has kept us free and clear. I have felt so humiliated and embarassed by this, but NOT getting bedbugs has been a huge blessing. I am grateful that God has blessed us. And maybe for our sakes, and for our poor neighbors who have continued to be fighting these bedbugs, you can pray that they too will be blessed with NO more bedbugs! I couldn't imagine having these recurrences for almost a year now.
I know God does so much more than these petty things I am listing here, I just wanted to write these down to say that I am thankful. And if anything, to remind myself.
Dirty Laundry
I have to say that lately I have really experienced God in my life when I am in the laundry room. It may sound strange, but that is a physical place where I often pray to God and He continues to bless me very blatantly each time. I know I have written about it before, but it happened again today. I stood there by the washing machine as it ate two quarters, but wouldn't take the third one. I tried again and again for at least 5 full minutes, and while profanities were on the verge of running from my head to out of my mouth, I decided to stop and I said a little prayer. CHA-CHING! In goes the last quarter. I don't know why all these experiences with quarters really make me feel like God is answering my prayers, but they are simple, yet significant ways that God is blessing me. Thanks again big man.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Happy Halloween
Well, we had more like a Boo Hoo Halloween this year. Liam was so cute in his Tow Mater costume made by Auntie Beth, but anytime we actually put it on him he cried his little eyes out until we took it off again. Needless to say, he didn't wear it for very long. He got his full share of candy from our MOPS get together in the morning and asks us if he can have his candy for breakfast. I think Jerry Seinfeld was right when he did his bit about kids and candy. I have a kid who will do anything for candy. Jeb and I didn't take our pictures, but we were graduates...AGAIN. Every year Halloween rolls around and the cap and gown is always so convenient to pull out of the closet. It was fun. Now I give permission for stores and shopping centers to officially put out their Thanksgiving deco....we have to take things in order that they come. I am personally shunning stores who have their Christmas decorations out already.
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